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  • Angela Merkel Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Coco Chanel Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Tim O'Brien Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Seneca Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barbra Streisand Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Asa Gray Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bell Hooks Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Eliza Cook Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Nido R. Qubein Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people
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  • Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aristophanes Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • William Shakespeare Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mark Twain Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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